The Practice
Different problems require different kinds of work.
Sometimes the work is investigation. Sometimes it's an application, an automated workflow, a better digital experience, or helping a team understand how to use AI. The point isn't to sell a particular solution. It's to figure out what would actually help.
Any of these can be commissioned on its own. Each begins the same way — understanding what actually needs to happen before deciding what to build, change, automate, or recommend.
§ I · Signature practice
Organizational Investigation
When something isn't working and the obvious explanation doesn't feel complete.
A focused engagement to uncover root causes, understand problems that are tangled together, and determine what actually needs to change — before committing resources to solutions.
§ II
AI & Automation
You don't need to arrive knowing which AI tool you need.
Justin can be commissioned simply to spend focused time understanding how your organization works and identifying where AI or automation may actually create value — and where it won't. Not every organization needs AI. Some need a better process first.
The work may be a focused advisory engagement, an automation project, an AI agent, an implementation, or some combination.
Practical training is available for teams and organizations, remote or in-person where practical: understanding modern AI, working effectively with it, AI-assisted work, workflow automation, building applications, agents and tool use, and responsible adoption.
§ III
Apps & Digital Products
Custom web applications, internal tools, AI-powered products and prototypes — designed and built.
Not concepts or mockups — real, working software for small and mid-sized organizations, nonprofits, founders, and teams with focused problems worth solving.
§ IV
Websites
Professional, custom websites shaped around how people actually look for things.
A website is often where an organization's deeper complexity shows up first. The work treats it that way — structure and purpose before surface, and a site that fits into the broader digital systems around it.
§ V · Evidence
Selected Builds
Not a portfolio. Evidence that the work gets designed and built.
Build · 001 — AI App
View Live ↗Guided Project Intake
An intelligent intake that identifies likely needs before the first conversation, so clients arrive prepared and recommendations start from evidence.
Build · 002 — Website
View Live ↗Curated Wellness & Consciousness Directory
A curated resource platform with a distinct editorial voice — structured so visitors can discover practitioners and resources without the noise of a typical marketplace.
Build · 003 — App
View Live ↗Community Cleanup Mapping
A civic app for residents to report, map, and track cleanup sites across a rural county — turning scattered reports into a shared picture.
Build · 004 — Internal Tool
View Live ↗Small Business Time Leak Calculator
A focused tool that estimates the time and revenue lost to manual tasks — a practical starting point for automation conversations.
Build · 005 — Website
View Live ↗Regional Hardscape Company
A professional site for a regional outdoor-construction business, organized around how homeowners and contractors actually evaluate and request work.
Build · 006 — App
View Live ↗Statewide Wellbeing Dashboard
An interactive data experience for exploring wellbeing, stewardship, and connection across a state.
§ VI
Independent by design.
I work directly with the organizations I take on. When a project needs capabilities beyond mine, I bring in trusted collaborators rather than maintaining a traditional agency.
Based at Emergent Campus in Florence, Colorado. Working with organizations locally, throughout Colorado, and remotely.
§ VII
Selected Platforms & Credentials
A selection — not the complete record.See LinkedIn for more ↗
Zapier Silver Solutions Partner
OpenAI API Coding with Python
Codecademy · 2026
Risk Management Basics
Cybrary · 2026
Fellow Innovator
NoCodeOps by Zapier · 2025
OSINT
Cybrary · 2025
Generative AI for Everyone
Codecademy · 2025
Conduct UX Research and Test Early Concepts
Google UX · Coursera · 2023
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